Tag: Yoruba

Ezekwesili, Fani-Kayode clash over anti-Igbo articles. A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has called on the government to arrest ...

The Lagos State Government is yet to react to the claim. A former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, has ...

Once again, the Muslim feast of Eid-el-Fitr has come and gone and Nigerian leaders, as usual, used the opportunity to preach ...

Those that call me a tribalist are simply misguided. Perhaps they do not know the meaning of the word or ...

In Igbo land, there are people referred to as “ori n’ crisis” (someone who makes a fortune during crisis). Former ...

Permit me to make my second and final contribution to the raging debate about Lagos, who owns it and the ...

''The claim that the Igbo helped to develop Lagos is hogwash. The major institutions of the south-west were developed by ...

Up until 1292 BC and the ascension of King Menpehtyre Ramesses, all the Pharaohs of Egypt were black. These include ...

 “The Yoruba are ancestors of the black Cushite migrants and settlers that did not go to Africa…” In his 2000 ...

When, recently, in a circular to all staff, my employers forbade the speaking of “vernacular” in favour of the English ...

The group appealed to the president to address the ‘lopsidedness’ in federal appointments. A group, the National Coalition of Yoruba Youth ...

The Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria are a nationality of approximately 50 million people, the vast majority of who are concentrated ...

The Yoruba living in the Diaspora informed Mr. Obasanjo of the plan to bring socio economic development to the Yoruba ...

The warring party is trying to broker peace ahead of the 2015 elections. Some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, ...

Something quiet, subtle but historic  happened in our country  on Wednesday March 20th 2013. On  this  day, amidst great expectations and ...

The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG,says Boko Haram should not be given amnesty. A Yoruba group, Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has ...

The Alaafin of Oyo says Obasanjo is to blame for the marginalization of the Yoruba race. It was a hard ...

Mrs. Awolowo made the statement in Ogun State, South West Nigeria. The wife of the late Premier of the Western ...

Yoruba are disunited and this cause marginalization at the federal level, Olu Falae says. A former presidential candidate, Olu Falae, ...

Aside from the fractionalization of the PDP in the South-West, which has affected the fortunes of the zone, Yoruba leaders ...

She died on New Year eve at the University College Hospital.

“And I have wondered if it ever occurred to Chief Babatope that he also, by implication, answered his interviewer’s question ...

Mr. Ogungbe set up and supervised the 50:50 company to capture the early filmic phase of today’s corridor of the ...

The actor died in Abeokuta

The artiste, one of Nigeria's oldest surviving singers, is most famous for his hit track, ‘Won kere si number wa’.